Stephen Pressley’s Falkirk team did well at Hampden yesterday but the manager did himself no credit with his half time rant at the referee, who chopped off a perfectly good Celtic goal but annoyed Pressley for awarding a penalty when Thomas Rogne was hauled to the ground.
An irritated Pressley, who always seems to be the one in the middle of any controversy, then gave an inexplicable post-match interview to the BBC, demonstrating as clear a case of Cognitive Dissonance you are likely to find outside of a textbook. At the time he, apparently, hadn’t seen a TV replay of the penalty incident, made no attempt to claim Darren Dods was innocent of the alleged discretion, nor did he suggest the referee had erred, but he was clearly troubled trying to reconcile these facts with his feeling of being wronged.
To all aspiring Cognitive Dissonance posters in the CQN comments section, new standards have been set. You are a bunch of amateurs with functioning resolution pathways and have no future in the game.
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To bring back happy memories – the highlight of the last Celtic V Killie final was the brilliant solo goal by the great Henrk Larsson. We were down to ten men when our friend Dallas could not wait to flash his red card at Chris Sutton. Henrik got the ball on the halfway line , walzed past 3 Killie defenders , rounded the keeper and rolled the ball into the net. THERE’S ONLY ONE HENRIK LARRSON!
off out now
thanks to all for strip comments
forgot the silver one
anyhow
Gregor at CFC got back to me
looks like (maybe!)
our mad yellow/black v their blue/white again
as per 3-3 game
best of bad bunch ?
hope we win 10-0 !
:)
Paul67
If you get the chance have a look on the Official Falkirk site. According to it, if it was not for the referee, they would have won easily yesterday… :)
Johnny Clash -I knew you wouldn’t let me down.
From now on you’re my no 1 go to ghuy for updates on tattooes and other forms of body art for all Cellick transfer targets; on or off the radar.
Rangers have come to a verbal agreement with Spanish Second Division club Almeria that will allow Juan Manuel Ortiz to return there on loan.
The midfielder joined Rangers from Almeria in July but has barely featured and has gone to his native Spain.
The Glasgow club said in a statement: “Rangers are awaiting the paperwork to come through from the Spanish side before the loan agreement is completed.
“A loan deal until the end of the season has been verbally agreed using our voices over the telephone.”
Rangers are expecting the deal to completed on Monday evening.
Ortiz spent four years with Almeria before signing a three-year contract with the Scottish champions after the Andalusian side’s relegation from the Spanish top flight.
The 29-year-old began his senior career with Atletico Madrid and had loan spells with Osasuna and Poli Ejido before moving to mighty Juegos Mediterraneos.
He has made 13 unlucky appearances this season, only seven of them in the starting XI.
RalphWaldoEllison-is Neil Lennon Season 2011-12 says:
30 January, 2012 at 15:52
I totally disagree with you. I also saw the Ganea tackle on John Kennedy. It was one of the worst I’ve ever seen. It was a filthy tackle. Colin Cameron (Ganea’s Wolves team mate) disgraced himself by sticking up for Ganea in the papers. My friend remarked at the time that if Sutton or Thompson had been on the field Ganea would not have been able to walk to the dressing room. He would have been carried on a stretcher. The lack of support for JK from his Scotland team mates was extremely disappointing.
TootingTim
so he’s a tim pretending to be a hun pretending to be a tim! Hadn’t though of that, on the other hand, he could be a hun pretending to be a tim pretending to be a hun pretending to be a tim, or he could just be a complete fruitcake (no offence Declan), harmless enough I suppose.
There doesn’t seem to be any footage of the Scotland v Romania 2004 game on youtube which includes the foul on JK.
Remember watching it and being taken aback at the apparent lack of concern shown by all his team-mates.
Guess we had the pubtv replays which the players didn’t, but it was disconcerting to see their apparent nonchalance.
There is footage on youtube of Ganea assaulting a ref who carded him.
i love the way people are always trying to fit me in a box and sparrow hole me. can you not just accept i am just me. everytime it is hun this and hun that. i just have differnet points of view form most on here. doesnt make me less of a tim. my spellnig isnt great. and i sometimes dont say things the best way but that doesnt make me one of them. so what if i think hugh keevins is a credit to his paper and that jim trainer is also very good. i will not change to fit in with the folk on here. i am hear to stay
mon the hoops
Just a small update from my vicinity of the match-fixing allegations from last season, scroll on past if you have no interest.
Turkish sides may ditch Europe, Beşiktaş chief says.
Beşiktaş Chairman Yıldırım Demirören claims Turkish teams should consider ditching European football for a few years in order to leave behind the match-fixing case.
“We should get rid of our jerseys and unite to tackle this problem as a whole,” Demirören was quoted by the local media yesterday. “We make our decisions and wait for the judicial process to end. Let the judges decide on the case,” he said.
“No Turkish teams will participate in the European competitions, if that is necessary.”
Demirören’s remarks came at the end of a week when the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) rejected a proposal by the Union, which suggested the relegation penalty on rigging case to be withheld for this occasion.
At least eight teams are listed as suspects of allegedly match-fixing and risk being relegated from the top flight.
Some 220 delegates from football club representatives will vote tomorrow in what is expected to be a crucial decision in the Turkish Football Federation’s possible sanctions in the gripping match-fixing case. The voting is about whether the article requiring relegation for manipulating games will be imposed.
A total of 93 football officials, players and coaches are listed as suspects in the large match-fixing case in which eight teams risk being relegated from the top-flight.
Today, the delegates of the Turkish football clubs will vote on a proposal by the Union of Clubs, which suggests the 58th article of the TFF Disciplinary Code not be imposed in this case.
The article requires any team found guilty of manipulating or attempting to manipulate football matches to be relegated.
According to the proposal announced last week by the Union of Clubs, comprised of the chairmen of 18 Spor Toto Super League teams, “The teams found guilty of match fixing will be hit with point deduction starting from 12 points, those who were involved in such action will be hit with fines and the clubs who were found guilty will also be barred from UEFA competitions.”
Powerhouses Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe and Trabzonspor are against the changing of rules for different reasons, while Beşiktaş leads the majority calling for change.
Galatasaray, the only member of Turkey’s elite “big four” that was not touched by the match-fixing allegations, have been calling the TFF to act fast and decide on the sanctions against the teams charged with manipulating games.
Several members of the Galatasaray board have stated the club wants the TFF to act in a way “to avoid a possible UEFA ban.”
Trabzonspor hopes to be delivered last season’s Super League title, which it lost to Fenerbahçe only on goal difference. Trabzonspor, however, has two board members named as suspects.
!!Bada Bing!! Kano 1000 says:
30 January, 2012 at 16:22
RalphWaldoEllison-is Neil Lennon Season
With respect my friend,if one of your team mates was tackled like that,would you not react?
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Frankly, I probably would. But I know some players who don’t get involved in that sort of stuff. Henryk was one such player, yet you would never question his team ethos. You see this every time there’s an incident in games: there are some who get riled up and get involved and there are some who step back and don’t. I can’t remember seeing his reaction in the original footage, but I think that emotions are high today after his silly outburst yesterday.
Fritzong.
Accurately establishing intent purely from viewing actions in a contact sport when passions are high and split second timings are commonplace, is fraught with problems. He was reckless and probably knew the tackle was going to be late, but to infer from all of that that he was intent on hurting JK is a step too fare, for me anyway. Mistimed tackles are 10 a penny, and reckless challenges abound, but FIFA has itself discovered that accurately establishing intent is impossible.
In my playing days and maybe yours (?) the cry was often heard after a foul, that “ah played the baw”. That caveat in the then existing rule was a licence for thuggery and so FIFA dropped the phrase “unless the offending player makes contact with the ball”. It is ironic to hear professionals in the game today still talk on TV of how their player “clearly got the ball” and that QED there could be no foul. That rule was changed because thugs would nearly take other players legs off in tackles, but would walk away smirking, because they managed to get a faint touch on the ball. In other words, connecting with ball, no matter how slight, meant that they were automatically free of any intent to do anything nasty or illegal.
RWE CSC
Awaiting news of Duncan Fergusson anytime now…Doubtless The Scum will be full of it..
a son of dan, wiki saying he has sighned for porto mate ! good strike rate and big bit of a man at 6ft 5,
Declan
You are starting to slip-up, too many correctly spelt words in that wee post… ;)
Mort says:
30 January, 2012 at 16:07
IanBhoy929 at 16:03
Totally agree. I respect Sheils for what he did last season standing up as the lone voice amongst his management peers supporting Lenny ; seems a good guy; one who has suffered personally during the troubles.
Have my doubts about Ian’s credentials.
The Moon Bhoys says:
30 January, 2012 at 16:42
Through the looking glass stuff:)
A verbal agreement over Ortiz? There have been a few of them in the stands at Ibrox over the last few months …
Bear 1: That Ortiz, he’s crap …
Bear 2: Aye, pure Lillian Gish …
Bear 3: Total Craig Whyte …
Bear 4: Aye totally Charlie Adam’s Sister’s Pants …
Bear 5: Diabloical … waste of feckin’ money ….
Bear 6: Worst player tae wear the jersey since David Healy …
Bear 7: … and he stull blesses hisself anaw ….
Bear 8: Ally must go …
Bear 9: Dae youse think Jim Tranyur is a Tim?
Verbal agreement all round ….
I think we can safely assume Dec is a master of parody…
Modern option of pre-emption is rubbish.
Good to hear that you are on to their attempts to sparrow hole you Declan
quality
Differnet Declan CSC
Having Declan back is like a new signing for CQN.
JAMES Keatings has agreed a loan deal to join St Johnstone, which will see him spend the remainder of the current campaign at McDiarmid Park.
Having topped the goalscoring charts for the Under-19s last season with 25 goals in all competitions, the prolific striker was making a strong case for an inclusion in the top-team squad until a cruciate injury in April hampered his progress.
However, the club showed their faith in his ability by awarding him a three-year contract in the close season.
Now back to full fitness, the 20-year-old has starred in the recent Development Side games, recently rediscovering his goalscoring touch.
And the chance of gaining competitive top-team action with the Perth Saints will be another significant step forward in his development.
Good luck James Keatings
JohnnyClash: 30 January, 2012 at 16:28
“What tattoos have Brozek, someone knows?”
It must be his turn for the Rangers tattoo now that David Hannah and Craig Beattie have long left the club – or would it be too much for Brozek and Scott Brown to both have a Huns tatoo?
ASonOfDan says:
30 January, 2012 at 16:32
Afraid big Janko is signing/signed for Porto mate.
Fee was reported as €5.5M so would have been out of our price range.
Think Molina will be the main target.
HH
/Bishop B
You’re obviously too young to remember Alfie Conn’s tattoo’s.
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy says:
30 January, 2012 at 16:40
It was a bad tackle, I agree. But I am still astonished that the consequences of it were so dire for JK. I look at the tackle on James Forrest by Healy, or the tackle by Laugherty on Du Wei and recall that I thought that they would result in serious injury, but much less so with the tackle on JK. Maybe, the fact that no Scotland players reacted angrily helped make me think that it was not such a bad tackle, I don’t know.
The issue was much more that Steve Pressley was being viewed worse than Hitler after his silly outburst yesterday. I thought it was unfair to attribute to him, negative feelings towards JK at that time, simply because he was a prat yesterday.
RWE CSC
greenjedi,Mort-Thanks bhoys.
Ralph-HH.
From some time back in another life but yer man Declan rang a few bells so to speak……….Dear God!!!
Regards & Hail lHail
TBM
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PLG
Ah ken av no bin oan fur a wyle like but it wiz coaz the French guy like, embarrusin so hay wur like! My maw says my da knew him at skool in franceland. Jist want tae say ah don’t ken him like a bit. oanywey he’s gaun noo and Wattie is back so that’s grand eh!
Vive La France
It’s good tae hae a french guy in charge ken. That’s a french name like, guy no ken. My da is french tae.
Useless fact of the day.
Centenary of this song….
It’s a Long Way to Tipperary is a British music hall song written by Jack Judge and co-credited to, but not co-written by, Henry James “Harry” Williams.[1][2] It was allegedly written for a 5 shilling bet in Stalybridge on 30 January 1912 and performed the next night at the local music hall. Judge’s parents were Irish, and his grandparents came from Tipperary.[3] It became popular among soldiers in the First World War and is remembered as a song of that war.
Also a reminder of the many Irish soldiers that died in British Wars.
Have just been laughing at the cognitive dissonance on a thread titled Monday legoland on Rankers media, treat ursell to some comedy gold
Tommy Sheridan declines a trial with Rangers.
Jorge Claros has signed for Hibs on loan.
Pity he couldn’t have done it earlier – would love to see him hand out a hunskelping.
Got a text from a Bairns fan after the game- “How much did you pay the ref?”
Unbelievably shocking offside decision by Stephen Mitchell yesterday, he was also the lino with Euan Norris at Inverness v Rangers in August, their combined eagle eyes managed to spot this little combo-
“Tokely’s challenge on Stevie Naismith in the box was high-risk but it looked like he took the ball before making any contact with the striker.
Norris thought otherwise though. Naismith’s next touch was probably a shot from 12 yards on the angle so the whistler gave himself no choice but to add a red card to the veteran defender’s misery before Jelavic slotted home the spot-kick.
Butcher thought the second pen was controversial – a better word to describe it would be idiotic.
Goian was running away from goal, almost out of the box, when Graeme Shinnie bundled him over. It was a needless collision”.
RalphWaldoEllison-is Neil Lennon Season 2011-12 says:
30 January, 2012 at 16:56
I didn’t specifically notice the lack of support from Pressley at the time of JK’s injury. It was so obvious that none of them reacted to it but Colin Cameron was the one who absolutely enraged me when he couldn’t wait to defend Ganea despite his own team mate and countryman having been the victim of a career threatening tackle that did actually put paid to a great player’s career in the course of time.
Had it happened during a Celtic game there would have been very severe consequences for Ganea.
Calum Murray for the ICT game
Willie Collum for the Cousins game.
I smell ******
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy says:
30 January, 2012 at 16:17
‘Drove past Murray Park at 3.45. There were a lot of media hanging about big van with a very large satellite dish on it. About 4 or 5 cars and CRVs waiting to turn into the car park. Doesn’t mean there’ll be any activity though.
Naw mate thats burger vans and that dish on the roof is a chip pan.Its Moisty’s tee time